BBCNEWS Weather World June 4, 2024 15:50:00
So this line is going up and down. what we have done is we have put a trend line through this data. you can see there are fluctuations in this data, but what we can see most apparent towards the end of the data is we can see this increase in rainfall and that is broadly as we expect, that as our climate gets warmer, it also gets wetter. and in 2022, the met office was able to extend the uk's official rainfall record back even further in time, an extra 26 years to 1836. that's after thousands of volunteers helped to digitise millions of handwritten rainfall observations in the extra spare time ...